Despite the Watcher's assurance, Talin doesn't immediately relax. Without knowledge of magic, there's no way he can say whether the man is telling the truth, so this really just comes down to one question: does he trust this human, or not?
"Spirits are intelligent, living creatures," he recites, sharp. "Binding them against their will is reprehensible."
Such a lesson is not always the easist for Fen'Harel's agents to learn, particularly the city elves. Their human Maker has poisoned them so effectively against the Beyond and their siblings across the Veil, it's a rare city elf who can accept the Dread Wolf's truth. Talin himself took time to come around to the Wolf's perspective, even with his engrained Dalish practicality about magic—but he's espoused it long enough that where he was once skeptical, now it feels true. Immutable. Spirits are as much People as he is.
"You're human. You believe in the Maker, presumably," and he doesn't wait for confirmation either way before continuing, "why would you use a spirit without binding it?"
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"Spirits are intelligent, living creatures," he recites, sharp. "Binding them against their will is reprehensible."
Such a lesson is not always the easist for Fen'Harel's agents to learn, particularly the city elves. Their human Maker has poisoned them so effectively against the Beyond and their siblings across the Veil, it's a rare city elf who can accept the Dread Wolf's truth. Talin himself took time to come around to the Wolf's perspective, even with his engrained Dalish practicality about magic—but he's espoused it long enough that where he was once skeptical, now it feels true. Immutable. Spirits are as much People as he is.
"You're human. You believe in the Maker, presumably," and he doesn't wait for confirmation either way before continuing, "why would you use a spirit without binding it?"